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The Metaphysics of Henry More

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 207)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3988-8

ISBN: 978-94-007-3987-1

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Mar 28, 2012

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 1 –34

[I begin by discussing the stature of More within the philosophical community of his own era, and his importance for historians of philosophy in ours, an importance that stems equally from his own original contributions to the field and from his interactions with other figures, notable in their...
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Chapter 2Atoms and Void

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 35 –73

[A first stab at More’s account of the nature of physical reality, which consisted in a plenum of figureless atoms, maybe finite and maybe infinite—More vacillated on that particular question—with a vacuum possible but not actual.]
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Chapter 3Hyle, or First Matter

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 75 –101

[The physical universe now gets probed more deeply, via a study of More’s changing views on ‘Hyle’, the mere potentiality of corporeal creation. In a nutshell: in 1646, More felt that the nature of such potentiality could be explicated in terms of an atomised space; in 1662, he felt that it could...
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Chapter 4Real Space

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 103 –139

[Here we see the reason why the mature More could no longer explicate the nature of Hyle in spatial terms: because he now felt that space was much too real to fit the bill of an infinitely unreal first matter. I discuss More’s position in relation to that of other figures of his era, via a close...
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Chapter 5Spiritual Presence

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 141 –184

[Whether, and in what sense, spiritual beings like God or the human soul could be ascribed any spatial presence. More consistently insisted that they should be: but (as other commentators have failed to appreciate) his views on the nature of that presence changed dramatically over the course of...
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Chapter 6Spiritual Extension

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 185 –236

[A closer analysis of the precise nature of this immaterial extension, as the mature More conceived it, together with related notions such as those of ‘essential spissitude’ and ‘hylopathia’. Once More had concluded (i) that space not only possessed an infinite immaterial extension but was also...
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Chapter 7Living Matter

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 237 –278

[A return to the nature of bodies, now examining another issue that has also been missed in the secondary literature: namely, More’s early contention that all bodies were actually alive, at least in some minimal sense, and consequently were not purely corporeal after all. One key reason why this...
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Chapter 8Mechanism and Its Limits

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 279 –311

[Now that we know what the physical world is made of, we next need to consider how it works. I here look at More’s early commitment (albeit never total) to mechanical physics, and discuss how this can be squared with the vitalistic treatment of body that, as just noted, he was also embracing in...
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Chapter 9The Spirit of Nature

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 313 –348

[If there are spiritual forces at work in the natural world, whether to stand in for mechanical explanations where the latter fall short, or to supplement them even where they are forthcoming, then what might the bearers of these powers be like? We already saw a partial answer to this question in...
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Chapter 10The Life of the Soul

Reid, Jasper

Pages: 349 –381

[Through all of the contentious debates in which More engaged himself, although his position might have regularly reached considerably beyond the express tenets of the Church of England, at least it tended not to come into direct conflict with them. In his conviction that the human soul existed...

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